or…. another rant against Weather Wonks.
Now, I have kept my mouth shut for many a year around this old blog when it comes to Weather Wonks. But I can’t take it any more.
1. If a “thing” isn’t even big enough or strong enough to be called a tropical depression, it shouldn’t be the leading story on the news.
2. If a “thing” or even a hurricane is over 2000 miles away from “the little pointy thing”…i.e. Florida…. it should not be in the “news” section of the “news”.
3. If the hurricane does not have a snowballs’ chance of coming anywhere near US waters, must less hit an actual state or territory… why are we even talking about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In regards to the “little pointy thing” reference:
Years ago there was a weather man named Danny Trainer (God bless his little pea pickin’ heart!) who, lets just say liked to over indulge a bit and was well known for being on the air while plastered. He narrowly escaped being fired on more than one occasion. Then one day there was a hurricane by the name of David and good ol’ Danny was havin’ to tell all of us about it. But before he could do that he had to enjoy a delightful beverage or two or thirty. And so as he slurred his dire warnings and such he kinda forgot where he lived and stated that “David” would be “hitting that little pointy thing” at the bottom of the country sometime later.
And that is how “the little pointy thing” ended the long and liver-pickled career of Danny Trainer.
This concludes today’s episode of Florida Historical Events Tainted by Alcohol .
Sloshed or not, if Danny tells me to run, I’m outta here.
LOL! You should see the news reports here if we get even a bit of rain. “Stormwatch 2008!” Look, wet streets, stalled cars… oh my!
I hear ya! I freak out enough on my own from June to January, does a bee sneezing in Africa have to be played up to such dire news?? Sheesh!
I don’t think we’ve ever had a pickled newscaster down here, ours just have an affinity for young BOYS, ewwwww!
We do have one idiot who’s a real pretty boy but dumber than a bag of elbows! One year he was interviewing some Phd weather guy (not our Max!) who was of Hispanic descent and our pretty boy moron actually had to crust to compliment this DOCTOR’S pronunciation of English ON AIR!! Whatta maroon!
Thank you! We have been discussing this in Northwest Florida too. Luckily, our weather people are pretty smart, but I am seriously sick of weather (and other news) hysteria. Don’t get me all excited about a tropical depression for nothing.
And don’t sit on the news talking about how my town has had buildings wiped out by a storm when they just lost a few roof shingles, and the building you’re talking about is actually on another street. Especially when the town you’re broadcasting from is 80 miles away and none of your employees are here.
And while I’m on the subject of overreacting, I hate those stories where the newscaster is freaking out about some star may lose her kids or may be going to court or to rehab, and then you have some “professional” psychologist or doctor or lawyer speculating how the case is going to go or what your office would do with a client in this situation.
Oh, and don’t ask them a whole lot of stupid questions they can’t even answer because they don’t know the person or have solid details. Don’t try the case on the air, unless you’re actually in the courtroom (OJ trial, missing girl in Aruba case, mother who killed herself when her child went missing, guy that killed his kid, wife, dog, or you fill in the blank).That kind of stuff drives me bonkers.
Especially when, after all 50 days of speculation, what actually happened is so anticlimatic, they can barely be bothered to report it. The truth never gets 1/2 the play the speculation does.
oh crap, now I’m ranting like an on-air “interviewer.”
OH good! I have been saying the same thing since “bertha” was born like a month ago and they are still talking about it! Don’t tell me until I need to actually do something!
LOL…I remember seeing that news cast…we were here on vacation. We had actually just flown into the airport (ya know…the one right along the 408)and had jsut arrived at our hotel in Cocoa Beach…just unpacked and got the phone call that the hotel would have to be evacuated. We turned on the news to see what on earth was going on…and there he was!!! We cracked up, cause we thought our news caster were idiots until we saw him!!!
Spent the next 3 days “hunkered down” in the most filthy hotel somewhere along Hwy 50. You’ve heard of a “hole in the wall” joint? This one literally had a hole in the bathroom wall!!!
Ok this made me LAUGH!!!! I totally agree with you on this one. I find it interesting to hear abt waves coming off of Africa, but dont use it as a lead story. I’m sure there is something more important in the world (on the BLOCK) than a hurricane that is taking forever to get here. They haven’t a clue that far out. And when you watch the *cone of destruction* move so much in just a few hours, its enough to make people extremely nervous or extremely devoid of ANY amt of concern. HOW long have they been talking abt Bertha???
Oh and if you watch CNN and have seen Rick Sanchez, he used to be our weatherman out in the south florida area. He was on the FOX network and my most vivid memory of him is standing outside in his little yellow slicker holding a stick. He was trying to show how windy it was but it just came across as stupid. This was during andrew which we know caused MUCH more mess than him standing on the beach, but to this day me and dh will say “I am holding a stick”.